Having read Homer’s Iliad and listened to Dominic Keating’s epic 19-hour readout of this legendary lyric poem, I can now say that the Iliad‘s reputation as the first great literary masterpiece of the Western canon is totally deserved. In addition, during the next few weeks I will be reading the following works of ancient Greek literature and philosophy:

1. Hesiod, Works and Days
2. Theognis, Elegies
3. Sappho, selected poems
4. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
5. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
6. Sophocles, Oedipus the King
7. Sophocles, Antigone
8. Euripides, Hippolytus
9. Euripides, Medea
10. Aristophanes, Lysistrata
11. Aristophanes, Clouds